NYC Rap 1971: Hey Now! Last Poets - Real Hip Hop & Street Gang History

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The Last Poets and Amiri Baraka are the progenitors of Rap music in New York City. The Last Poets are Muslims, not Zulus. Amiri Baraka was a student poet of Aleister Crowley long before Jay-Z. "We want lyrics that kill" is Mr. Crowley's vision for Gangster Rap made manifest in 1960's Harlem by Amiri Baraka ref. "A Black Mass 1968".

The Ghetto Brothers are the original Bronx street gang that initiated the elements of Hip Hop in New York. The Chicago Blood - Brother alliance of 1966 is the influence on the Ghetto Brothers wearing red rag and attempting to establish Peace between street gangs in the Bronx. The Black Spades were their mortal enemies.

The Zulu Nation was formed out the Black Spades. Graffiti and megamixing are from California where Jamaican Reggae was also introduced, as we intend to show and prove. NYC Hip Hop incorporated Reggae 20 years after the "Hip"pies in California.

Hip Hop Graffiti and gang murals evolve from Chicano culture. The colorful graffiti murals originate with Underground Comics i.e. the SF Bay Area. New York did not originate graffiti i.e. the Hip Hop elements. California introduced Reggae before Kool Herc, mixing before Mr. Magic, and Graffiti.

Grand Wizard Theodore contributed to Dr. Demento's art of mixing by inventing scratching.

The Original Last Poets were formed on May 19, 1968 (Malcolm X's birthday), at Mount Morris Park (now known as Marcus Garvey Park) in East Harlem. On October 24th 1968, the group performed on pioneering New York television program Soul!

Luciano, Kain, Abiodune Oyewole and Nelson recorded separately as The Original Last Poets, gaining some renown as the soundtrack artists (without Oyewole) of the 1971 film Right On!

In 1972, they appeared on Black Forum Records album Black Spirits - Festival Of New Black Poets In America with "And See Her Image In The River" and "Song of Ditla, part II", recorded live at the Apollo Theatre, Harlem, New York. A book of the same name was published by Random House (1972 - ISBN 9780394476209).

The original group actually consisted of Gylan Kain, David Nelson and Abiodun Oyewole. Following their get-together on May 19, 1968 (Malcolm X's birthday), at Marcus Garvey Park, the group coalesced via a 1969 Harlem writers' workshop known as East Wind. When Nelson left, he was replaced by Felipe Luciano, who would later leave to establish the Young Lords. When Kain and Nelson then began to pursue other interests (theater and ministry respectively), Abiodun Oyewole "recruited" Alafia Pudim (later known as Jalaluddin Mansur) and Umar bin Hassan in an attempt to replace the founding members of the group. Following the success of the newly refigured Last Poets first album, founding members Kain and Nelson got together with Luciano and recorded their only album Right On in 1970, the soundtrack to a documentary movie of the same name that finally saw release in 1971. (See also Performance (1970 film featuring Mick Jagger) soundtrack song "Wake Up, Niggers".) Following a legal battle between the two groups concerning ownership of the band's name, The Right On album was released under the group name The Original Last Poets to simultaneously establish the founding members' primacy and distance themselves from the other group of the same name.